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Cyber Bullying

The reality is that anybody can be bullied no matter how young or
old they are bullying can happen to anyone. There are many different kinds of
bullying such as verbal, physical and cyber. Cyber bullying is now becoming more
common these days. Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are
becoming know all around the world for all the wrong reasons. People do not
realise what bullying can do to someone, we have seen over the past number of week’s
people who have been bullied taking their own life.

Bulling through social media sites is broadcasting the bullying.
It is no longer private bullying when it is brought onto the internet. Once it
is on the World Wide Web it will always be there no matter how many times you
try to delete it. Cyber bullying begins to get more people involved, and in
more cases many people who join in on bullying are taking the side of the bully
rather than the person begin bullied. Cyber bullying creates a form of peer
pressure and often many more people become the bullies.

Everybody is unique and different in their own way and that is
what bullies feed on. They will find something that makes you stand out from
the rest of your peer’s weather it is a good thing or a bad thing and they will
use that as a reason to bully you. Bullies seem themselves as strong as and
better than others but in fact that is not true. Often people bully for many
reasons such as a way of coping with something going on in their life but that
is no excuse. The people who come through all of the bullying are the strong ones;
they go through the pain and come out the other end. That is what it means to
be strong.

Social media sites can be used for positive
activities, like connecting kids with friends and family, helping students with
school, and for entertainment. But these sites can also be used to hurt other
people. Whether done in person or through technology, the effects of bullying
are similar.

People
who are cyber bullied are more likely to:

Use alcohol and drugs

Experience in-person bullying

Be unwilling to attend school

Receive poor grades

Have lower self-esteem

Resort to self harm

They may suffer from mental health problems such as
depression

They may consider or follow through with Suicide

Watch this video to explain Cyber Bullying in simple terms:

In my school we have a bullying motto which is: “If you don’t
report it you support it!!”

So if you are being bullied or know of anybody being bullied
it is important that you reach out and tell someone that you trust. Be it a
teacher a friend or a parent tell some who can help. You do not have to go
through bullying on your own, there are people who are there to help and want
to put an end to bullying.

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